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Inside Mixpanel From customer problems to product features: how to use feedback to create a roadmap
Why The New York Times isn't afraid of a tech takeover
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"The reality is that media businesses have lived off the incredible inefficiency of the advertising market for their entire lives. Now it's becoming efficient, and that makes life harder."
In fewer than 50 words, Nick Rockwell has just described the existential crisis of the news industry. And if there's anyone qualified to summarize this, it might be him. For the past year, he's served as the Chief Technology Officer of The New York Times. He lives this tension daily: New media versus traditional media; what the public needs versus what the public wants; user interests vs. advertiser interests.
"There are these incredible platforms like Facebook that just take the data-driven advertising opportunity to its extreme in a way that can't be competed with," he says, sounding more awestruck at the implications than afraid.
The Times is the strongest news brand in America, but even the paper of record has been forced to acknowledge the impact of platforms like Facebook. While the Times may have a different value prop than a social network, they go head-to-head for clients, vying for readers' attention and advertisers' dollars.
In that sense, something like a social network is a very real competitor. And to do battle with the bright-faced boy kings of Silicon Valley, the Gray Lady was in need of a touch-up.
The first problem Nick recognized coming aboard the Times was how the engineering organization was siloed from the rest of the company.
"It was really negative because it actually undermined the idea of engineering being sort of a core capability of a company like the Times," he says. "One of the things I addressed immediately was breaking those barriers down and collaborating as deeply as we could with the rest of the company."
While more of a cultural quandary than a technical one, this is essentially the role Nick has assigned himself: To make engineering a core capability of the paper's editorial mission, not just an after-the-fact update.
Technology can improve the overall experience of the Times, he believes, without having to colonize it.
Against clicks
"Traditionally, newspapers couldn't get any information on what was working," Nick says. "You knew if the circulation was going up or down, but you actually had no feedback in terms of what people were actually reading, what they appreciated, or why they were remaining a customer or not."
Some papers cling to bygone business models, while others bend to appease the trends du jour. Circulation, for example, is an outdated metric for a very tech-savvy organization. But newer players overindex on clicks.
"Focusing on clicks would be a terrible mistake for us," Nick says. "We know from the data that the cycle for a reader to grow to understand the Times and eventually become a subscriber is measured over many years. Sometimes as long as a decade. The signal that you get from just looking at clicks is not going to be significant enough."
Luckily, there's a lot more data than just clicks. The Times' website and apps ingest multitudes of different behaviors. A newspaper is a portal to the outside world. How readers choose to engage with the outside world incidentally reveals a lot about themselves.
"People who consume multiple sections are more likely to become loyal readers," he offers. "We know that and we work that into our Audience Development strategy across the board. We're constantly trying to understand where those levers are."
Because the profile of a Times reader can be complicated, sometimes built over several years, Nick isn't ready to productize everything he has data on yet. In the scope of the paper's 165-year history, his team is relatively new. They still need to know how to successfully engage their readership and stay relevant.
"We haven't landed on what we think the perfect formula is," Nick says. "Amongst the things we care about are what people click on, the time they spend with a particular piece of content, scroll depth, as well as repeat visits over a defined period of time. Those are some of the key metrics."
The problem here is that tech platforms like Facebook and BuzzFeed have already locked on their perfect formula, reaped users, and then sold those off to advertisers. So while there can be no question of the Times' value (one need only count the Pulitzers—117, by the way), it will have adapt to the new realities of content.
All of which Nick knows, but it's not so easy.
"Personalization is an area where you can expect to see a lot more from us in the future," Nick says. "However, we need to be careful because the editorial perspective of the Times is one of the things that our subscribers value. They expect us to curate things they need to know, not just the things that they want to know. We're thinking about how can we create a level of abstraction around the editorial judgement that we supply, so it can be potentially worked into an algorithm."
As Facebook has proven recently, some editorial supervision is required when developing news algorithms. To that end, Nick says, "If the value for a core subscriber is breadth, you wouldn't necessarily want to insulate them in their own personal feed of the things that they normally read."
And so making the broadsheets less broad is still a big what if. While the big innovations of content distribution are on Nick's mind, his team wants to develop methodologies that, though high-tech, remain true to the Times.
"We're going to take our time to do this right," he says. "The test cycles are long because our behavior cycles are long. This work will take place over the next 3-to-5 years."
Understanding that the Times' behavior cycles are long like a newspaper's (and not short like any other app's) is no small thing. It means that the engineering organization has to align its definition of success with the more traditional notions of the editorial pool.
"We have to allow data into our decision-making process, and then we need to really work to understand the long-term patterns and correlations as we try to build loyalty in our readers."
Ad absurdum
And then there are those advertisers. They used to be at the mercy of the papers, but the power balance has shifted. As the Times tries to stay beloved to readers, it also needs to prove efficient in the eyes of advertisers.
"In any media business, you have the interest of the marketers and the interests of the audience, and they're not completely aligned," Nick says.
A clear example of this would be ad speed. A high-speed ad is ostensibly good for advertisers. But an ad that loads too fast threatens to turn off readers. And then the company's reputation suffers.
"There's a great deal of value to us from that relatively small number of highly-engaged users, which isn't true of most media sites," Nick says. "To put it into context, it's common for subscribers to turn over hundreds of pages in a month. A typical media site, you would be happy to get 10 or 12 pages views a month from a unique user. We might get 200. Sometimes more."
With the Times, visitors remember. Every experiment Nick's team runs will have to account for this affinity. When the engineering organization tampers with the interface, it's not just good reporting that's at stake. It's a brand that lives in people's hearts.
"We really, really can't alienate those people, or our business is going to suffer," Nick says. "If you're dealing with people who come to your site once a month, it's easier to throw a bunch of ads on the page and hope for the best because they'll probably still click on the link on Facebook next time and won't even remember your site."
The Times' uniquely deep engagement is what makes unobtrusive advertising important. But it's also the thing that attracts advertisers in the first place, and Nick's mindful of that. He wants to do right by both sides.
"If the overall experience loads quickly and performs well, but the ads take several seconds to load in, that's a problem, but it's a problem that can be balanced within the interests of our advertisers," Nick says. "If it's loading slowly, ads are probably going to get less engagement. But maybe it's worth it if the reason they load slowly is to capture more data."
Ad speed and site performance is a problem many media sites are contending with. The more ads, the more revenue. But if the ads' presence tarnishes the reading experience, readers might drift to competitors. Recognizing this, Nick wanted to quantitatively measure the cost and benefit of these tradeoffs. But over time, gauging how readers felt about this proved nearly impossible.
"It's pretty easy to measure the technical performance of this—how long the overall various events get fired by the document model, when pages get done loading—but this doesn't really tell you much," Nick says. "There's a whole bunch of scenarios in which it doesn't give you any information about things that are aversive to the user experience."
The team knew this tension existed, but articulating how users were feeling it was impossible to do quantitatively. So they had to rethink how they measured.
"There is an idea," Nick says. "One which I haven't seen too much of in the industry."
How does the Times feel?
"The idea we've been experimenting with is doing this qualitatively," Nick says. "We have to test what the impact is for our audience, which is a surprisingly difficult thing to do. We want to capture what the perception and sentiment are about the performance of the overall experience. Then, if we're able to, I want to isolate the impact of ad performance in particular, which will be really difficult."
In engineering organizations, qualitative analysis is sometimes looked down upon. But on Nick's team, there's a feeling that it may be the most accurate method.
So, to minimize the risk of aberration, Nick's team is being very shrewd about the types of queries they use. Briefly, he considered doing a comparative approach (How do you feel about the Times' ad experience vis-à-vis The Wall Street Journal?) but later decided against it. Now, he's trying to baseline what the experience of reading the Times is like.
"Through surveying and focus groups over a period of time, we'll follow whether users feel like our advertising is getting less intrusive or more intrusive, which will allow us to steer the ship down the optimal path," he says. "My instinct is to focus more on generic assessment of the overall feeling of the performance and the pleasure of the user experience, and use those as our guide."
It's a slower process than alternative types of analysis, but if it stands a chance of delivering big value advertisers while protecting the brand's integrity, it's worth it. Asking users how the Times makes them feel might sound squishy for an engineering organization, but this is a business with a heart, one that's been ticking for almost two centuries. There can be exactitude in this science, but empathy has a place, too.
"What I see is an organization that really, really wants to change, but which has deep-seated instincts that are different from what you would see in a data-driven organization," Nick says. "The industry is in a tough spot, but I feel very optimistic for us."
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I have never seen anything like this addressed. I have played 'open' mah jongg in many locations and when a late comer arrives and sees full tables (yes, we sometimes play 3), they say Hi, I see the tables are full, and then Bye, I'll see you next week. This is the first time I've been exposed to this kind of behavior on someone arriving late.
And BTW, next week I will publish the comments from the posting re the player who called a kong discard, exposed it, and next exchanged a Joker from her rack to then call for Mah Jongg.
This entry was posted in Mah Jongg and Me and tagged mah jongg, mahjong on April 8, 2016 by Mah Jongg and Me.
Has this player been asked if she can arrive on time or why is she always late. Has it been announced that no players can be rotated into play after X minutes from the start time.
First of all, is there a reason she shows up late all the time? Maybe she has other commitments that won't allow her to get there by 1:00 pm? If it is an "open" table game, and you rotate East out for those on the side, does it matter if she shows up at 1:00 or at 2:00? Either way, someone would be rotating. If a player were to walk into an open game where I was, I would hope people would not turn her away, but instead would welcome that person and play a table of 5 instead of having her leave because she sees the tables are full. I seem to feel there is more to this than just coming in late.
As another thought entered my mind after this post, if you have two or three tables and you are rotating one person or even two out, you aren't waiting a long time to get back into a table.
This player should not be allowed to play!!
Why would you not rotate her in if you have a 3-player table? After their game ends, of course. I'd understand if you have 4 people at every table, but not this. It's much better to play with 4.
If it is an "open" game, I wouldn't think it would matter when someone arrived. The group I play with on occasion allows people to arrive at any time and rotate in, as long as that player stays until the end of the session.
I personally don't like playing 3 handed, so if this person were to arrive late and I was "stuck" at the 3 person table, I'd welcome her. If I'd welcome her under those conditions, then she should be welcome if there are 4 at the table already. Just sayin".
When that happens in our 'open' group at the public library, no one feels the late arriver is rude. Keywords: "open" and "public".
I agree with Valerie. We play twice a week at a Sr. center from noon to 4 with 5-8 tables. Some people arrive at noon and some later. This past week someone didn't arrive until 3 and it was fine. They just rotate in. Some people have to leave early so it all works out just great. That's why it's open play at a Center. We try to be very flexible.
We have a meet up group. You RSVP if you're coming or not. I walked in ,5 minutes late and I see someone who is not a member playing. To join the group costs nothing and I have asked this person to join but her answer us that she doesn't come on a regular basis. That's not the point it's a courtesy thing. Then 6 people are there. She wants to play 4 in and 2 out. I said no, we'll play 3 and 3. Point is she tries to run the group and she's not a member. I'm fortunate in that I play several times a week but some only play on this day and I want to make surveyed play as much as they can.
If it's an open game she should be able to rotate in with no issues. Some people need to arrive a little late as some people need to leave a little early. All are there to play, have fun and enjoy each other's company.
Simplest solution is to have a sign or send an email indicating that latecomers will be welcomed up to 1/2 hour (or whatever) after the scheduled start time.


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Q: OrientDB: Movies tutorial I am trying to use OrientDB to perform gremlin queries through a select statement. I'm sure I saw a tutorial doing just this using the movies example from the demo database. However, I have read through so much documentation on the DB that I can't for the life of me find it now. Does anybody have a link to it?

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http://markorodriguez.com/2011/09/22/a-graph-based-movie-recommender-engine/
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"Хайка за вълци" е роман на българския писател Ивайло Петров (19 януари 1923 – 14 април 2005) от 1986 година. По романа е създаден филмът Хайка за вълци на режисьора Станимир Трифонов от 2000 година.

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Романът е драматична сага, чието действие обхваща дълъг и драматичен за България период – времето на първите години след Втората световна война до 1965 г. Съдбите на Иван Шибилев, Мона, Жендо, Калчо, Николин, Стоян Кралев, на техните синове и дъщери, се сближават и възпламеняват от страсти и конфликти. Книгата е разказ за хора, които по време на сталинизма се раждат или умират, заради това, което обичат. Хайката за вълци е символ на неистовото желание за мъст и разчистване на сметки, чийто изход е представен като душевна болка, породена от изгубеното човешко щастие.

Външни препратки

 Владимир Атанасов, "Митологии на съвременната проза – от опитомяването на змейове до хайката за вълци", LiterNet, 25 юли 2001
 Благовест Златанов, "Хайка за вълци": Как филмът пренаписва романа", Електронно списание LiterNet, 18.05.2001, № 5 (18)

Български романи
Книги от 1982 година

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Experimental Film
Parent categories: experimental - film
Related: abstract film - art film - avant-garde film - media arts - structural film - underground film - video art
EXPRMNTL was the largest festival dedicated to experimental cinema. It was conceived and curated by Jacques Ledoux and the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in Knokke-le-Zoute. It was organized five times between 1949 and 1974. Attendees included Jonas Mekas and Peter Kubelka, Yoko Ono and Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jack Smith and Martin Scorsese, Holger Meins and Pierre Vermeylen. And Marguerite Duras, Marcel Broodthaers, Roman Polanski, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Snow, Hugo Claus, Pierre Clémenti, Martial Raysse, Nam-June Paik, P. Adams Sitney, Jean-Luc Godard and many other "flaming creatures".
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) - Man Ray, Hans Richter
An experimental film is a film nominally but not necessarily made to test an audience's reaction to certain performances or types of presentation not normally found in mainstream cinema. Such films are usually avant garde and may shock or surprise their viewers, intentionally or otherwise. Among the european pioneers of experimental film are Hans Richter and Victor Eggeling. The most famous piece of the art form is generally considered Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's Un Chien Andalou.
Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren is considered to be the first important american experimental film. Important north american experimental film makers include Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Ernie Gehr, Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_film [Feb 2005]
The European avant-garde of experimental film
Un Chien Andalou (1928) - Luis Buñuel [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Two conditions made Europe in the 1920s ready for the emergence of experimental film. First, the cinema matured as a medium, and highbrow resistance to the mass entertainment began to wane. Second, avant-garde movements in the visual arts flourished. The Dadaists and Surrealists in particular took to cinema. René Clair's Entr'acte took madcap comedy into nonsequitur, and artists Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau, Germaine Dulac and Viking Eggeling all contributed Surrealist shorts. The most famous experimental film is generally considered to be Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's Un Chien Andalou.
Working in France, another group of filmmakers also financed films through patronage and distributed them through cine-clubs, yet they were narrative films not tied to an avant-garde school. Film scholar David Bordwell has dubbed these French Impressionists, and included Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, and Dimitri Kirsanov. These films combines narrative experimentation, rhytmic editing and camerawork, and an emphasis on character subjectivity.
The Soviet filmmakers, too, found a counterpart to modernist painting and photography in their theories of montage. The films of Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Alexander Dovzhenko and Vsevolod Pudovkin were instrumental in providing an alternate model from that offered by classical Hollywood. While not experimental films per se, they contributed to the film language of the avant-garde.
The U.S. had some avant-garde filmmakers before World War II, but as a whole pre-war experimental film culture failed to gain a critical mass. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_film#The_European_Avant-Garde [Aug 2005]
Distribution [...]
Finding an audience for experimental films can be just as difficult as making them. From 1947 to 1963, the New York-based Cinema 16 functioned as the primary exhibitor and distributor of experimental film in the United States. Under the leadership of Amos Vogel and Marcia Vogel, Cinema 16 flourished as a nonprofit membership society committed to the exhibition of documentary, avant-garde, scientific, educational, and performance films to ever-increasing audiences.
Vogel's selection did not please everybody. In 1962 Jonas Mekas and about 20 other film makers founded The Film-Maker's Cooperative in New York City. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_film [Feb 2005]
Experimental filmmakers
Experimental filmmakers are individual artists who use or used film as a visual art form rather than a storytelling or as a form of commercial media.
Developed on both sides of the Atlantic at such artist-run organizations as Anthology Film Archives, The Millennium Film Workshop, the Collective for Living Cinema and The Film Makers Cooperative in New York, the British Film Institute in London and the National Film Board of Canada.
Many of the artists involved in this movement remained outside of the mainstream commercial cinema and entertainment industry and became teachers at universities such as the State University of New York.
Prominent experimental filmmakers include Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Joseph Cornell, Kenneth Anger and Tony Conrad. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_filmmaker [Oct 2004]
Experimental Film Festival Knokke
Knokke-le-Zoute "Exprmntl 4" experimental film festival and competition in Belgium proves a watershed, whose influence leads to the LFMC establishing itself on an international level - 20 British films submitted, though only 5 shown in competition - Steve Dwoskin wins the Solvay Prize, and his films Chinese Checkers and Soliloquy are chosen by P. Adams Sitney for his New American Cinema tour - Wavelength (Michael Snow) wins first prize as Sitney begins to consider his pivotal definition of Structural Film - David Curtis regards the festival as a significant moment for London film-makers, though Dwoskin and Cobbing play it down, crystallising differences between Dwoskin's subjective view and Curtis' (and other's) increasing attention to process. --December 1967
KNOKKE 1963 1967 1974
Revue belge du cinéma n° 43 / par Xavier Garcia Bardon / préface de Nicole Brenez / 80 pages illustrées / format A4 / 10 euros / vient de paraître!
EXPRMNTL fut la plus importante manifestation jamais consacrée au cinéma expérimental. Conçu et organisé par Jacques Ledoux et la Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, le festival de Knokke-le-Zoute, qui ne connut que cinq éditions entre 1949 et 1974, jouit aujourd'hui d'un statut quasi-mythique. A juste titre, car cette initiative singulière et inclassable fut bien davantage qu'un simple festival de cinéma : un point de rencontre pour la création d'avant-garde et la pensée contemporaine, un événement placé sous le signe de l'imprévu, du désir et de la contestation, y compris celle du festival même. En somme : une manifestation ce point cohérente avec son objet qu'elle fut en elle-même une expérience.
Ce nouveau numéro de la Revue belge du cinéma présente la première étude de fond sur EXPRMNTL. Elle aborde l'histoire de la manifestation dans son ensemble et sous ses aspects les plus divers : organisation, financement, projections, activités parallèles, happenings, débordements, etc. Elle est plus particulièrement consacrée ses trois dernières éditions (1963, 1967 et 1974), les plus riches en découvertes et en scandales. Ce texte dense se fonde sur les archives du festival, jusqu'ici inexplorées, sur les comptes rendus parus dans la presse de l'époque et sur des entretiens avec plusieurs acteurs et spectateurs de l'événement. Il est illustré de nombreuses photographies et de documents inédits.
On y croisera Jonas Mekas et Peter Kubelka, Yoko Ono et Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jack Smith et Martin Scorsese, Holger Meins et Pierre Vermeylen. Et encore Marguerite Duras, Marcel Broodthaers, Roman Polanski, Mauricio Kagel, Michael Snow, Hugo Claus, Pierre Clémenti, Martial Raysse, Nam-June Paik, Jean-Luc Godard et beaucoup d'autres " flaming creatures ".
American Experimental Film
by Tom Hyland & Jonathan Marlow
with critical contributions from Fred Camper and Kerry Laitala
http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/experimental.jsp [Oct 2004]
Like many of the predominant art movements in the Twentieth Century, American Experimental Film, one could argue, saw its birth in New York City. Conversely, one could easily claim that the movement began on the opposite coast (in San Francisco, for instance, where truly significant developments were made, or in the shadow of Hollywood, where several filmmakers got their start.
Regardless, though heavily influenced by the German Expressionists (F.W. Murnau, Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene), the Soviet Constructivists (Alexander Dovzhenko, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin) and the early French Trick-Filmmakers (Georges Melies, Emile Cohl, Ferdinand Zecca), experimental work in the 1950s and 1960s grew out of a desire to expand beyond the rules of conventional narrative and invent a new language for film.
Indifferent to the labels of "avant-garde," "underground" or "non-narrative" film, the "experimental" genre (as a unifying term), has two qualities that distinguish itself from other forms of filmmaking: a desire to deconstruct, or entirely ignore, the Hollywood aesthetic and a complete exploitation of the range of tools available to filmmakers. Fundamentally, experimental films provide a new way of seeing the world that is free from the traditional sense of "storytelling" and, instead, communicate in a purely visual manner. Much like today, the foundation for the medium found its roots in relatively inexpensive materials. In the early 1960s, price reductions in film stock and equipment aided the movement. Presently, the relative ease and availability of digital video and the appropriation of culturally obsolete equipment (such as Super-8 and PixelVision) has regenerated interest in the form. -- Tom Hyland & Jonathan Marlow, http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/experimental.jsp [Oct 2004]
A History of Experimental Film and Video (1999) - A. L. Rees
A History of Experimental Film and Video (1999) - A. L. Rees [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
"excellent... a considerable achievement." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
"[A] handy guide to both the avant-garde and the thickets of modernism from which the cinema avant-garde grew." --This text refers to the Library Binding edition.
56 b&w illus. Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition. In this book A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its post-modern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse.
This is the first major history of avant-garde film and video to be published in more than twenty years. Ranging from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 90s, this remarkable study will introduce a generation of new readers to avant-garde film as well as provoking students and specialists to further reflection and debate. --via Amazon.com
Experimental Cinema (1971) - David Curtis
Experimental Cinema (1971) - David Curtis [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Film is: The international free cinema (1975) - Stephen Dwoskin
Film is: The international free cinema (1975) - Stephen Dwoskin [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (2002) - Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) (2002) - Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]
This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the long tradition of American avant-garde cinema, from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. It addresses major movements and key figures of the avant-garde, including filmmakers.--Synopsis
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected filmmakers. Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in their context. The book concludes with a valuable filmography of key films available.--Product Description


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A Christmas rant
Baby it's Cold Outside, Bing Crosby, Christmas Wrapping, Cristina, David Bowie, Esther Williams, Fairytale of New York, Jona Lewie, Kirsty MacColl, Little Drummer Boy, Neptune's Daughter, Pogues, Radio 1, Ricardo Montalban, Stop the Cavalry, The Waitresses, Things Fall Apart
And straight in at number one in the 'brain-numbingly stupid decisions of 2007' chart is BBC Radio 1, for censoring one of the only decent Christmas songs ever written to avoid offence to listeners.
The essence of a stupid decision is that it achieves exactly the opposite effect to the one intended – and that can certainly be said of this bowdlerisation of the Pogues' Fairytale of New York, where any offence prevented by censorship is surely dwarfed by the offence caused by butchering the soaring vocals of the doomed Kirsty MacColl.
The BBC reportedly said: "We are playing an edited version because some members of the audience might find it offensive."
Well, bollocks to the BBC.
It's all a matter of context. Stick a fist under someone's nose and call them a faggot or a slut and it's offensive. Script a scene between two characters, one a self-deluding alcoholic and the other a dying junkie, and it can be art.
Doesn't have to be, of course. Could still be offensive. But not in this case.
The Pogues are said to be amused. MacColl's mother Jean thinks it's ridiculous. And, according to BBC Online, Pogues fan Kevin Caswell said: "The lyrics are what make the song and if I were Mr McGowan I would ensure you were never allowed to play this poetic, touching and classic song."
It's not a corporation-wide ban. Radio 2, which during my youth was what you found when you looked in the dictionary under 'bland' and 'inoffensive', is playing the song in full.
And so is everyone else.
For it is a well-known fact that only five Christmas songs have ever been written which aren't so toe-curlingly awful that the songwriters should have been taken aside as schoolchildren and advised to go into accountancy.
Of course, not everyone agrees on which five. But here, courtesy of YouTube, are my choices. Plus one bonus winter song from the movies that's a delight to watch.
Number five
I was tempted to say John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War is Over) here, but let's face it – as a song, it's a bit of a dirge. Very worthy, but in the 'anti war Xmas song' stakes I'll pick Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie any year.
Number four
I'm not big with the Christmas carols, but the vocals on this duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie are to die for. Little Drummer Boy, of course.
Number three
The perfect antidote to over-sentimental Christmas tosh – from 1981, Things Fall Apart, by Cristina.
A bit more jingly, but still from the early-80s school of sardonic seasonal slices of life, comes Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses.
Kirsty and the Pogues, naturally. What else? See it here live in all its uncensored glory.
Special winter bonus
Finally, from the movie Neptune's Daughter, here are Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams performing Baby it's cold outside. How about that choreography?
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There are various restaurants in Singapore.
Ah Yat Abalone Restaurant is a restaurant in Singapore, that was set up in 2003 for the Turf City crowds.
Aston's is a restaurant that sells western food, which is available everywhere in Singapore. Timothy Mok had went to City Square Mall and Suntec City outlets.
Freshness Burger is a fast food restaurant joint in Japan. Founded in 1992, it sells hamburgers, sandwiches, salads, and coffee drinks. It advertises itself as fresh and organic, operating under the slogan "Freshness Food, Freshness Serving, Freshness People and Freshness Planet", which is displayed in English. There are several vegetarian items on the menu. On 1 December 2010, Freshness Burger opened the first store in Singapore at Nex, and extended into Century Square, Tampines Secondary School, Montfort Secondary School, Central Mall, and Causeway Point in Woodlands. All our stores were closed by December 2012.
Freshness Burger's menu is divided into various nine categories: Classic Burger, Vegetable Burger, Hamburger, Hotdog, Side Order, Dessert, Hot Drink, Cold Drink, and Set Menu. According to the website, Freshness Burger are made with "100% real" beef. Its Classic Burger selections include the Classic Burger, Classic Cheese Burger, and the Classic WW Burger. The Classic WW Burger is like the Classic Cheese Burger, except that it contains two beef patties, and double the cheese (the WW indicates double).
Freshness Burger currently offers vegetable beans burger. Freshness Burger currently offers eight varieties of hamburgers. These include the Freshness Burger, Bacon Omelet Burger, Salsa Burger, Teriyaki Burger, Teriyaki Chicken Burger, Fish Burger, Cheese Burger, and Spam Burger.
In addition to the wide selection of burgers, Freshness Burger has three variations of hot dog on the menu, which include a basic Hot Dog, a Chili Beans Dog, and a Cheese Dog. Freshness Burger's side order menu features not only the expected side order items, such as Fried Potatoes, Onion Rings, and Chicken Nuggets, but also has an array of salads, a soup, and other food offerings for purchase. According to the website, Freshness has a private contract with a farm in Hokkaido which is responsible for providing the company with its potatoes. Freshness Burger's french fries (commonly referred to in Japan as fried potato; フライドポテト or furaido poteto) are served in the style of steak fries, and are available in two sizes: small and regular.
Freshness does not serve fountain-style soft drinks that are typical of fast food restaurant chains, although it does offer Pepsi Nex (a calorie-free variation of Pepsi developed in Japan) and 7 Up. Freshness Burger primarily sells original cold drinks that reflect their freshness theme. Some of these include smoothies, fresh juices, natural sodas including lime and lemon-cranberry, cold teas, and cold coffee-based drinks, in addition to Draft Beer. Freshness Burger not only advertises itself as a burger focused fast food chain but as a café. As such, its drinks selection is wide. Freshness mainly serves hot organic coffee-based drinks and organic tea. However, it also sells hot lemonade and hot cocoa. Additionally, seasonal drinks are occasionally introduced. Many Freshness locations began offering Chocolate Coconut Latte in January 2011, for example.
Freshness Burger has three set menus that may be purchased depending on the time of the day: A Morning Set, Lunch Combo and Cake Set. The Morning Set includes a Popover (from the Start Menu), a Hot Dog and the Set Drink.
Genki Sushi is a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants established in 1990 in Japan. The chain expanded to include locations in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States, including, California, Hawaii and Washington. Currently the outlets are in Orchard Central, Waterway Point, Chinatown Point and Bugis+. Previously there is a store at Tampines Mall until 2009. Since 2016, Annabel Lim had been quite familiar with Genki Sushi.
Hot Tomato Express is a restaurant in Singapore. One of the girls had worked there in 2015 and 2016.
Ichiban Sushi is a family restaurant in Singapore, together with Ichiban Boshi. Notable food that is inside there is Cold Soba with Tempura, and also Business Wazen (with the chawanmushi, miso soup, tempura and fish provided). It is part of RE&S concept.
Itacho Sushi is a sushi outlet in Singapore.
Itacho means chief chef in Japanese, a title given to the person with the most sublime position in a Japanese restaurant. With his exquisite culinary skills, ITACHO creates food with precious food ingredient to each and every one of his guests. With this same belief, Itacho Sushi only uses seasonal fresh fish and first class ingredients with which chefs can, together with their outstanding culinary skills, instantly prepare handmade fresh sushi when guests order.
Kai Sushi & Grill had outlets in Plaza Singapura and Poyan Court, which is a Japanese restaurant.
Lei Gardens is a restaurant where Jeremy Mok and Poh Jing Xiang had been eating at since 2011. It is where the Pei Tan Chok (thousand year old porridge) is located. It is at CHIJMES. We also ate at Lei Gardens on 12 August 2012.
Menya Musashi is a restaurant.
MOF My Izakaya is a Japanese restaurant in Singapore.
Sakae Sushi (Kanji: 栄寿司) is a restaurant chain based in Singapore serving Japanese cuisine, and is the flagship brand of Apex-Pal International Ltd. Aimed at the low- to mid-level pricing market, it offers sushi, sashimi, teppanyaki, yakimono, nabemono, tempura, agemono, ramen, udon, soba and donburi served either à la carte or via a sushi conveyor belt.
The chain has 40 outlets in Singapore, 15 of which are in the suburban areas. Its first outlet was opened in Raffles Place in September 1997, and is currently the largest kaiten-zushi Japanese restaurant chain in the country brands. It also has seven outlets in Malaysia, one in Thailand, six in the People's Republic of China, three in the Philippines and four in Indonesia. It also offers office- or home-delivery service in Singapore.
Sushi Express is rooted in Japanese in style, but also offers such items as specialty rolls and spicy items that evolved elsewhere, and have now become favorites for many sushi fans. Sushi Express today has over 300 directly managed restaurants and take out shops worldwide, In 2007, the company established Teishoku 8 – emphasizing quality, taste and affordability.
2011: Singapore introduced Sushi Express into the market at CityLink Mall.
The Hand Burger is a restaurant that is in Singapore, that sells burgers, which are located in 313 @ Somerset and Raffles City. Timothy Mok had been there in March 2011 with the family for eating after one of the successful trials. Later on, 313 @ Somerset and Raffles City stores all closed down in October 2014.
Tonkichi Japanese Restaurant is a restaurant that is in Singapore, imported from Japan.
For the drinks it is the Japanese Green Tea (Mocha) (which is the hotter one), like Lush Green. It can also be Asahi Japanese Beer or Sake. In addition, Tonkichi also has several brands such as Rivegauche (located at Tampines 1 and Takashimaya altogether).
Suntec City outlet was closed in July 2012 and disposed to make way for Food Republic. It was reopened in January 2016.
Takashimaya outlet was the first outlet since November 2007.
Wan Chai Hong Kong Tea Room is a café that is in Singapore, Timothy North and United Kingdom. It had outlets are IMM, Junction 8, Lot One, White Sands and Sembawang.
Wheeler's Yard is a restaurant located at 28 Lorong Ampas. Derrian Chia, Dylan Tan, Ostyn Heng, Annabel Lim, Ong Lifen and Chew Shin Ru, one of the Makan Club clubbies, had ate at Wheelers' Yard in 19 May 2014.


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package org.carrot2.source.xml;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.transform.Templates;

import org.apache.commons.lang.ObjectUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.carrot2.core.*;
import org.carrot2.core.attribute.*;
import org.carrot2.util.attribute.*;
import org.carrot2.util.attribute.constraint.*;
import org.carrot2.util.resource.*;

import org.carrot2.shaded.guava.common.collect.*;

/**
 * Fetches documents from XML files and streams. For additional flexibility, an XSLT
 * stylesheet can be applied to the XML stream before it is deserialized into Carrot2
 * data.
 *
 * @see #xml
 */
@Bindable(prefix = "XmlDocumentSource", inherit = CommonAttributes.class)
public class XmlDocumentSource extends ProcessingComponentBase implements IDocumentSource
{
    /** {@link Group} name. */
    private static final String XML_DATA = "XML data";
    /** {@link Group} name. */
    private static final String XML_TRANSFORMATION = "XML transformation";

    /**
     * The resource to load XML data from. You can either create instances of
     * {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.IResource} implementations directly or use
     * {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.ResourceLookup} to look up
     * {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.IResource} instances from a variety of locations.
     *

     * One special {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.IResource} implementation you can use is
     * {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.URLResourceWithParams}. It allows you to specify attribute placeholders in
     * the URL that will be replaced with actual values at runtime. The placeholder format
     * is ${attribute}. The following common attributes will be substituted:
     *

     *

     *
query will be replaced with the current query being processed. If
     * the query has not been provided, this attribute will fall back to an empty string.

     *
results will be replaced with the number of results requested. If
     * the number of results has not been provided, this attribute will be substituted
     * with an empty string.

     *

     *

     * Additionally, custom placeholders can be used. Values for the custom placeholders
     * should be provided in the {@link #xmlParameters} attribute.
     *

     */
    @Input
    @Init
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Required
    @Internal(configuration = true)
    @ImplementingClasses(classes =
    {
        FileResource.class, URLResourceWithParams.class, URLResource.class
    }, strict = false)
    @ResourceNameFilters(filters = {
        @ResourceNameFilter(pattern = "*.xml;*.XML", description = "XML files"),
        @ResourceNameFilter(pattern = "*.*", description = "All files")
    })
    @Label("XML resource")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.BASIC)
    @Group(XML_DATA)
    public IResource xml;

    /**
     * The resource to load XSLT stylesheet from. The XSLT stylesheet is optional and is
     * useful when the source XML stream does not follow the Carrot2 format. The XSLT
     * transformation will be applied to the source XML stream, the transformed XML stream
     * will be deserialized into {@link org.carrot2.core.Document}s.
     *

     * The XSLT {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.IResource} can be provided both on initialization and processing
     * time. The stylesheet provided on initialization will be cached for the life time of
     * the component, while processing-time style sheets will be compiled every time
     * processing is requested and will override the initialization-time stylesheet.
     *

     *

     * To pass additional parameters to the XSLT transformer, use the
     * {@link #xsltParameters} attribute.
     *

     */
    @Input
    @Init
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Internal(configuration = true)
    @ImplementingClasses(classes =
    {
        FileResource.class, URLResourceWithParams.class, URLResource.class
    }, strict = false)
    @ResourceNameFilters(filters = {
        @ResourceNameFilter(pattern = "*.xsl;*.xslt;*.XSL;*.XSLT", description = "XML stylesheets"),
        @ResourceNameFilter(pattern = "*.*", description = "All files")
    })
    @Label("XSLT stylesheet")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.MEDIUM)
    @Group(XML_TRANSFORMATION)
    public IResource xslt;

    /**
     * Values for custom placeholders in the XML URL. If the type of resource provided in
     * the {@link #xml} attribute is {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.URLResourceWithParams}, this map provides
     * values for custom placeholders found in the XML URL. Keys of the map correspond to
     * placeholder names, values of the map will be used to replace the placeholders.
     * Please see {@link #xml} for the placeholder syntax.
     */
    @Input
    @Init
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Internal(configuration = true)
    @Label("XML parameters")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.ADVANCED)
    @Group(XML_DATA)
    public Map<String, String> xmlParameters = ImmutableMap.of();

    /**
     * Parameters to be passed to the XSLT transformer. Keys of the map will be used as
     * parameter names, values of the map as parameter values.
     */
    @Input
    @Init
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Internal(configuration = true)
    @Label("XSLT parameters")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.ADVANCED)
    @Group(XML_TRANSFORMATION)
    public Map<String, String> xsltParameters = ImmutableMap.of();

    /**
     * After processing this field may hold the query read from the XML data, if any. For
     * the semantics of this field on input, see {@link #xml}.
     */
    @Input
    @Output
    @Processing
    @Attribute(key = AttributeNames.QUERY, inherit = true)
    public String query;

    /**
     * The maximum number of documents to read from the XML data if {@link #readAll} is
     * false.
     */
    @Input
    @Processing
    @Attribute(key = AttributeNames.RESULTS, inherit = true)
    @IntRange(min = 1)
    public int results = 100;

    /**
     * If clusters are present in the input XML they will be read and exposed to components
     * further down the processing chain.
     */
    @Input
    @Init
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Label("Read clusters from input")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.BASIC)
    @Group(XML_TRANSFORMATION)
    public boolean readClusters = false;

    /**
     * If true, all documents are read from the input XML stream, regardless
     * of the limit set by {@link #results}.
     */
    @Input
    @Processing
    @Attribute
    @Label("Read all documents")
    @Level(AttributeLevel.BASIC)
    @Group(DefaultGroups.QUERY)
    public boolean readAll = true;

    /**
     * The title (file name or query attribute, if present) for the search result fetched
     * from the resource.
     */
    @Output
    @Processing
    @Attribute(key = AttributeNames.PROCESSING_RESULT_TITLE, inherit = true)
    public String title;

    /**
     * Documents read from the XML data.
     */
    @Processing
    @Output
    @Attribute(key = AttributeNames.DOCUMENTS, inherit = true)
    public List<Document> documents;

    /**
     * If {@link #readClusters} is true and clusters are present in the input
     * XML, they will be deserialized and exposed to components further down the processing
     * chain.
     */
    @Processing
    @Input @Output
    @Internal
    @Attribute(key = AttributeNames.CLUSTERS, inherit = true)
    public List<Cluster> clusters;

    /**
     * The XSLT resource provided at init. If we want to allow specifying the XSLT both on
     * init and processing, and want to cache the XSLT template provided on init, we must
     * store this reference.
     */
    private IResource initXslt;

    /** A template defined at initialization time, can be null */
    private Templates instanceLevelXslt;

    /** A helper class that groups common functionality for XML/XSLT based data sources. */
    private final XmlDocumentSourceHelper xmlDocumentSourceHelper = new XmlDocumentSourceHelper();

    @Override
    public void init(IControllerContext context)
    {
        super.init(context);

        // Try to initialize the XSLT template, if provided in init attributes
        if (xslt != null)
        {
            initXslt = xslt;
            instanceLevelXslt = xmlDocumentSourceHelper.loadXslt(xslt);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void process() throws ProcessingException
    {
        try
        {
            title = null;

            final ProcessingResult processingResult = xmlDocumentSourceHelper
                .loadProcessingResult(openResource(xml), resolveStylesheet(),
                    xsltParameters);

            query = (String) processingResult.getAttributes().get(AttributeNames.QUERY);
            documents = processingResult.getDocuments();

            if (readClusters)
            {
                this.clusters = processingResult.getClusters();
            }

            /*
             * Override the result title if query is present.
             */
            if (!StringUtils.isEmpty(query))
            {
                title = null;
            }

            if (documents == null)
            {
                documents = Lists.newArrayList();
            }

            // Truncate to the requested number of documents if needed
            if (readAll == false && documents.size() > results)
            {
                documents = documents.subList(0, results);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw new ProcessingException("Could not process query: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    private Templates resolveStylesheet()
    {
        // Resolve the stylesheet to use
        Templates stylesheet = instanceLevelXslt;
        if (xslt != null)
        {
            if (!ObjectUtils.equals(xslt, initXslt))
            {
                stylesheet = xmlDocumentSourceHelper.loadXslt(xslt);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            stylesheet = null;
        }
        return stylesheet;
    }

    /**
     * Opens a {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.IResource}, also handles {@link org.carrot2.util.resource.URLResourceWithParams}s.
     */
    private InputStream openResource(IResource resource) throws IOException
    {
        title = resource.toString();

        if (resource instanceof URLResourceWithParams)
        {
            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(query))
            {
                title = query;
            }

            // If we got a specialized implementation of the Resource interface,
            // perform substitution of known attributes
            final Map<String, Object> attributes = Maps.newHashMap();

            attributes.put("query", (query != null ? query : ""));
            attributes.put("results", (results != -1 ? results : ""));
            attributes.putAll(xmlParameters);

            return ((URLResourceWithParams) resource).open(attributes);
        }

        if (resource instanceof FileResource)
        {
            title = ((FileResource) resource).getFile().getName();
        }

        // Open the generic Resource instance
        return resource.open();
    }
}


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title: Why did Nature choose phosphates? Why don't we?
date: 2019-08-16 19:22
summary: Phosphates are a repeating motif in many biochemical systems, but why? Do P(V) systems hold value in the fields of chemical synthesis and functional materials for energy storage and conversion?
categories: general
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Frank Weistheimer published a seminal paper in Science asking this very question, where he describes his thoughts as to why nature chose phosphates as the preeminent signaling and building blocks in living organisms, regardless of scale.


Christ Our High Priest • It's High Time!
Justice demands that sin be not merely pardoned, but the death penalty must be executed. God, in the gift of His only begotten Son, met both these requirements. By dying in man's stead, Christ exhausted the penalty and provided a pardon.
Man through sin has been severed from the life of God. His soul is palsied through the machinations of Satan, the author of sin. Of himself he is incapable of sensing sin, incapable of appreciating and appropriating the divine nature. Were it brought within his read there is nothing in it that his natural heart would desire it. The bewitching power of Satan is upon him. All the ingenious subterfuges the devil can suggest are presented to his mind to prevent every good impulse. Every faculty and power given him of God has been used as a weapon against the divine Benefactor. So, although He loves him, God cannot safely impart to him the gifts and blessings He desires to bestow.
But God will not be defeated by Satan. He sent His Son into the world, that through His taking the human form and nature, humanity and divinity combined in Him would elevate man in the scale of moral value with God.
There is no other way for man's salvation. "Without me," says Christ, "ye can do nothing." Through Christ, and Christ alone, the springs of life can vitalize man's nature, transform his taste, and set his affections flowing toward heaven. Through the union of the divine with the human nature, Christ could enlighten the understanding and infuse His life-giving properties through the soul dead in trespasses and sins.
When the mind is drawn to the cross of Calvary, Christ by imperfect sight is discerned on the shameful cross. Why did He die? In consequence of sin. What is sin? The transgression of the law. Then the eyes are open to see the character of sin. The law is broken but cannot pardon the transgressor. It is our schoolmaster, condemning to punishment. Where is the remedy? The law drives us to Christ, who was hanged upon the cross that He might be able to impart His righteousness to fallen, sinful man and thus present men to His Father in His righteous character.
Christ on the cross not only draws men to repentance toward God for the transgression of His law—for whom God pardons He first makes penitent—but Christ has satisfied Justice; He has proffered Himself as an atonement. His gushing blood, His broken body, satisfy the claims of the broken law, and thus He bridges the gulf which sin has made. He suffered in the flesh, that with His bruised and broken body He might cover the defenseless sinner. The victory gained at His death on Calvary broke forever the accusing power of Satan over the universe and silenced his charges that self-denial was impossible with God and therefore not essential in the human family.
Satan's position in heaven had been next to the Son of God. He was first among the angels. His power had been debasing, but God could not reveal it in its true light and carry all heaven in harmony with him in removing him with his evil influences. His power was increasing, but [the] evil [was] yet unrecognized. It was a deadly power to the universe, but for the security of the worlds and the government of heaven, it was necessary that it should develop and be revealed in its true light.
In carrying out his enmity to Christ until He hung upon the cross of Calvary, with wounded, bruised body and broken heart, Satan completely uprooted himself from the affections of the universe. It was then seen that God had in His Son denied Himself, giving Himself for the sins of the world, because He loved mankind. The Creator was revealed in the Son of the infinite God. Here the question, "Can there be self-denial with God?" was forever answered. Christ was God, and condescending to be made flesh, He assumed humanity and became obedient unto death, that He might undergo infinite sacrifice.
Whatever sacrifice a human being could undergo Christ endured, notwithstanding Satan put forth every effort to seduce Him with temptations; but the greater the temptation, the more perfect was the sacrifice. All that was possible for man to endure in the conflict with Satan, Christ endured in His human and divine nature combined. Obedient, sinless to the last, He died for man, his substitute and surety, enduring all that men ever endure from the deceiving tempter, that man may overcome by being a partaker of the divine nature.
Pure truth was found to be a match for falsehood, honesty and integrity for subtlety and intrigue, in every one who is, like Christ, willing to sacrifice all, even life itself, for the truth's sake. To resist Satan's desires is no easy task. It demands a firm hold of the divine nature from beginning to end, or it cannot be done. Christ, in the victories achieved in His death on Calvary's cross, plainly lays open the way for man, and thus makes it possible for him to keep the law of God through the Way, the Truth, and the Life. There is no other way.
The righteousness of Christ is presented as a free gift to the sinner if he will accept it. He has nothing of his own but what is tainted and corrupted, polluted with sin, utterly repulsive to a pure and holy God. Only through the righteous character of Jesus Christ can man come nigh to God.
Christ as high priest within the veil so immortalizes Calvary that thou He liveth unto God, He dies continually to sin, and thus if any man sin, he has an Advocate with the Father.
He arose from the tomb enshrouded with a cloud of angels in wondrous power and glory—the Deity and humanity combined. He took in His grasp the world over which Satan claimed to preside as his lawful territory, and by His wonderful work in giving His life, He restored the whole race of men to favor with God. The songs of triumph echoed and re-echoed through the worlds. Angel and archangel, cherubim and seraphim, sang the triumphant song at the amazing achievement.
Let no one take the limited narrow position that any of the works of man can help in the least possible way to liquidate the debt of his transgression. This is a fatal deception. If you would understand it, you must cease haggling over your pet ideas, and with humble hearts survey the atonement. This matter is so dimly comprehended that thousands upon thousands claiming to be sons of God are children of the wicked one, because they will depend on their own works. God always demanded good works, the law demands it, but because man placed himself in sin where his good works were valueless, Jesus' righteousness alone can avail. Christ is able to save to the uttermost because He ever liveth to make intercession for us. All that man can possibly do toward his own salvation is to accept the invitation, "Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." No sin can be committed by man for which satisfaction has not been met on Calvary. Thus the cross, in earnest appeals, continually proffers to the sinner a thorough expiation.
As you near the cross of Calvary, there is seen love that is without a parallel. As you by faith grasp the meaning of the sacrifice, you see yourself a sinner, condemned by a broken law. This is repentance. As you come with humble heart, you find pardon, for Christ Jesus is represented as continually standing at the altar, momentarily offering up the sacrifice for the sins of the world. He is a minister of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man. The typical shadows of the Jewish tabernacle no longer possess any virtue. A daily and yearly typical atonement is no longer to be made, but the atoning sacrifice through a mediator is essential because of the constant commission of sin. Jesus is officiating in the presence of God, offering up His shed blood, as it had been a lamb slain. Jesus presents the oblation offered for every offense and every shortcoming of the sinner.
Christ, our Mediator, and the Holy Spirit are constantly interceding in man's behalf, but the Spirit pleads not for us as does Christ, who presents His blood, shed from the foundation of the world; the Spirit works upon our hearts, drawing out prayers and penitence, praise and thanksgiving. The gratitude which flows from our lips is the result of the Spirit striking the cords of the soul in holy memories, awakening the music of the heart.
The religious services, the prayers, the praise, the penitent confession of sin, ascend from true believers as incense to the heavenly sanctuary, but passing through the corrupt channels of humanity, they are so defiled that unless purified by blood, they can never be of value with God. They ascend not in spotless purity, and unless the intercessor who is at God's right hand presents and purifies all by His righteousness, it is not acceptable to God. All incense from earthly tabernacles must be moist with the cleansing drops of the blood of Christ. He holds before the Father the censor of His own merits, in which there is no taint of earthly corruption. He gathers into this censor the prayers, the praise, and the confessions of His people, and with these He puts His own spotless righteousness. Then, perfumed with the merits of Christ's propitiation, the incense comes up before God wholly and entirely acceptable. Then gracious answers are returned.
O, that all may see that everything in obedience, in penitence, in praise and thanksgiving, must be placed upon the glowing fire of the righteousness of Christ. The fragrance of this righteousness ascends like a cloud around the mercy seat.
Christ gives through John the words to be given to the churches. He holds in His right hand the seven stars which represent the angels of these churches, and He walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks.1White, Ellen G. "The Need of Reformation." N.d. MS 50, 1900. E. G. White Estate. Ellen G. White Writings. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.
1. ↑ White, Ellen G. "The Need of Reformation." N.d. MS 50, 1900. E. G. White Estate. Ellen G. White Writings. Web. 21 Apr. 2017.


The selection committees have spoken: out of 452 entries the nominations for the Clean Energy Challenge have been selected!
The fifty-seven nominees will get the opportunity to refine their entries based on the feedback they receive from the selection committee members.
Finally, an international jury will decide which projects will get funding and support in the accelerator phase to develop their projects further into market ready prototypes.
The outcome of the selection phase has been announced on 25 January 2019. The fifty-seven nominees will now get the opportunity to refine their entries based on the feedback they receive from the review committee members.
An international jury will decide which projects will get funding and support in the accelerator phase to develop their projects further into market ready prototypes. The winning projects will be announced on March 6 in a special event at Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
The acceleration program is tailor-made for each of the winners of the three tracks.The winning projects will get funding and support in the accelerator phase to develop their projects further into market ready prototypes.
So WHAT ARE THE JUDGING CRITERIA?
Your idea is relevant because you've gained local insights and collaborate with people and/or organizations already working on solutions.
Your idea is feasible: technically, economically, politically, legally, socially, culturally and psychologically.